Hypertext Webster Gateway: "contumelious"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Contumelious \Con`tu*me"li*ous\ (?or ?; 106), a. [L.
contumeliosus.]
1. Exhibiting contumely; rudely contemptuous; insolent;
disdainful.

Scoffs, and scorns, and contumelious taunts. --Shak.

Curving a contumelious lip. --Tennyson.

2. Shameful; disgraceful. [Obs.] --Dr. H. More. --
{Con`tu*me"li*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Con`tu*me"li*ous*ness}, n.

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contumelious
adj : arrogantly insolent

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